SALSA

salsa

(noun) spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany Mexican foods

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

salsa (countable and uncountable, plural salsas)

(countable) A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and hot peppers.

(uncountable, music) A style of urban music originally from New York heavily influenced by Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.

(countable, dance) Any of several dances performed to salsa music.

Verb

salsa (third-person singular simple present salsas, present participle salsaing, simple past and past participle salsaed)

(intransitive) To dance the salsa.

Anagrams

• Salas, salas

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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